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Friday, June 1, 2012 2:31 PM
I am trying to install Visual Studio 2012 RC but after, having dowloaded the iso file and running it, I am facing the following message "Unable to locate package source". What does it mean and have I do to ?
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Friday, June 1, 2012 3:23 PM âś…Answered
Not sure why it worked for me but it did .. I still received the same errors as before however I followed these instructions to at least get the product to boot up for me...
If you have VS 2011 Beta installed, uninstall it.
Johnny Larue
Friday, June 1, 2012 2:37 PM | 1 vote
I too got that same message ... it gave me an option to download from Internet which I selected and its now continuing the install for the 3rd time.
Johnny Larue
Friday, June 1, 2012 2:48 PM | 1 vote
Not in my case. If I select "Download packages from the internet", it does not make any progress.
And by the way, what are those packages ?
Friday, June 1, 2012 3:17 PM
same here, it won't download from the Internet
trying to download the packages one by one from here
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#standalone
Friday, June 1, 2012 3:49 PM | 1 vote
You can try running the installer as administrator (right-click on the .exe file, "Run as Administrator"). It has already been reported to Microsoft here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/745356/visual-studio-2012-professsion-rc-install-fails.
Friday, June 1, 2012 4:18 PM
Also have a look at the steps anyone who had VS 2011 Beta installed were to follow prior to the upgrade...
I did not follow these steps but I did do an uninstall of VS 2011 Beta on my 3rd failed attempt and that brought VS 2012 to life for me.
What about SDK's I couldn't find any for VS 2012 so installed the VS 2011 Beta's need modeling support. So installed the VS 2011 SDK for Modeling and it seems to fire up ok. I have a fairly large DSL that I want to build to a package.
Johnny Larue
Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:58 AM
Same thing happening with me on a freshly installed Win8 Release Preview. No other app has been installed prior to running this setup.
Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:05 AM | 2 votes
You probably loaded/mounted the iso using Daemon Tools or something similar instead of burning the iso onto a disc. After the .NET Framework is configured, you're asked to restart your computer. When you do, your iso is no longer mounted. You need to remount the iso or reload it. The retry button will remain inactive until you select the option to search the web. Go ahead and select that option and it'll automatically check the iso directory again for good measure before telling you it failed again.
-Sam